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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Fears grow of WMD attack in Syria

these Westerners are so desperate for the rebels to win that they are supplying them with chemical weapons? smh
 _MrsCam (@_MrsCam) August 9, 2012

My fear is growing in any case and it has been prompted by not one, but two articles in the Iranian based PressTV today. Both articles claim that those opposing the Assad regime already have chemical weapons and are likely to use them soon. I don't believe these PressTV reports, mind you, because I have found them to be a known source of pro-Qaddafi, pro-Russian and pro-Assad mis-information, as exampled by this exposure I did of them here during the Libyan revolution, but I am greatly troubled by these reports, and a similar flurry of others from the pro-Assad bloggers and tweets, not because I fear that the Free Syrian Army has WMD and plans to use then, but because I know the Assad regime has WMD and the propaganda blitz sounds to me like the ground is being prepared to use them and blame the usage on the FSA.

When I add to that the fact the the Assad regime has apparently been stalled and, according to some reports even lost ground, in its big push to take back the country's business hub, Aleppo, from the opposition, I can easily imagine that they are reaching a point of desperation where the use of chemical weapons is something they might be willing to risk.

There is a horrible speculation that the insurgents in Syria may have seized hold of chemical weapons.

Apart from the catastrophically unthinkable havoc the rebels can wreak in Syria and in the region with the WMDs, the rhetorical question which remains is how these weapons of mass destruction have fallen into the hands of the insurgents who are chiefly composed of Wahhabi al-Qaeda mercenaries of different nationalities including Afghans, Iraqis, Turkish, Yemenis, Jordanians, Pakistanis, and Saudis. More ...

So here they are commenting on the speculation created by their first article, and have completely disregarded the need to provide any proof that the Free Syria Army has chemical weapons and has jumped to the when-did-you-stop-beating-your-wife question of how they got them. What slight of hand!

At the same time they make it clear that they think the opposition to Bashar al-Assad is anything but Syrian. According to them it is made up entirely by foreign aggressors, which would seem to relieve Assad of his pledge never to used his WMD on the Syrian people.

And as I said, there has been a flurry of such reports from the usual pro-Assad mouthpieces lately, so much so that it has the feeling of a concerted effort, like this piece here posted two days ago:

US Mercenaries planning a Chemical attack in Syria

Posted by ozyism at 7:27 PM August/06/12

Many Syrians and outside observers alike, fear that militants may deploy chemical weapons in one or more locations around Syria, creating a mass-casualty event to subsequently be blamed on the government by a coordinated Western media disinformation campaign.

The so-called "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) has already been conducting strings of devastating, indiscriminate mass-casualty bombings across the country, as reported by Reuters', "Outgunned Syria rebels make shift to bombs."

Libyan weapons, cash, and fighters have also all been confirmed to have made it into Syria in an effort to undermine, divide and destroy Syria. More ...

The day started in Salahedin just as it had for the past fortnight, with rebels under fierce assault from a nearby ring road and the Syrian Air Force blitzing them from the skies.

Just before daybreak, however, the frontline  thus far seemingly solid  began to wobble. Rebels briefly withdrew as the regime pushed forward with men and tanks. This, it seemed, was the start of the battle for Aleppo, an inexorable showdown for which the whole city had been nervously preparing.

Then, only several hours after daybreak, the regime retreated and the weary guerillas returned to their sandbags. Government claims to have conquered the enemy stronghold were false, as were the rebels' later claims to have breached regime lines. Nothing seems to be going to script in this war.

All the might that the forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad can muster is now camped just over a large bank of land to the east of Salahedin, the suburb of Aleppo that has become the focal point of the conflict. All the men the guerrilla force can assemble are holed up in crumbling buildings, the closest of them only 200m from the nearest regime tank.

Yet the decisive battle that most in Aleppo seemed to have feared is slowly giving way to another  even more dreaded  reality. Stalemate, with neither side willing or able to advance. A new sense is beginning to settle in that neither Salahedin, nor the rest of Syria's second city, will see an end to the fighting any time soon. More...